AN ALBUQUERQUE K-9 HAS BEEN SHOT AND THE SUSPECTED SHOOTER IS DEAD. IT HAPPENED DURING A STANDOFF THIS MORNING IN NORTHEAST ALBUQUERQUE. KOAT ACTION 7 NEWS REPORTER MIKE SPRINGER IS LIVE ON OAKLAND AVENUE NEAR SAN PEDRO WITH MORE, MIKE? ROYALE, POLICE K-9 RICO WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD AND THE NECK. HE EVEN HAS A BULLET LODGED NEAR HIS SPINE. THE DOG JUST GOT OUT OF SURGERY. AND RIGHT NOW, POLICE SAY HE IS IN STABLE CONDITION, BUT DOES HAVE SOME SEVERE TRAUMA. A LONG AND CHAOTIC MORNING IN NORTHEAST ALBUQUERQUE. We woke up when a gas bomb, I think. Something like boom. We just woke up and there were police cars exactly outside my house. A HEAVY POLICE PRESENCE BLOCKED OFF MUCH OF OAKLAND AVENUE NEAR SAN PEDRO FRIDAY. OFFICERS WERE CALLED OUT HERE FOR A SWAT SITUATION. They told us something was going on in the area. It wasn't really scary. It was normal. POLICE SAY A BURGLARY SUSPECTED WAS SPOTTED NEAR HERE AROUND 4 A-M. THEY TRACKED HIM TO ONE OF THESE WAREHOUSES JUST OFF OF OAKLAND. HERE'S WHAT POLICE SAY HAPPENED NEXT... Police set up a perimeter and then sent the k-9 in. Police heard multiple shots go off and the K-9 came retreating out. He was hit multiple times and taken to the vet. POLICE EVENTUALLY WENT ONTO THE PROPERTY. THAT'S WHEN OFFICERS SAY THEY FOUND A MAN DEAD. Now we are doing a multi-jurisdictional investigation but at no time did officers fire their weapons. THE POLICE K-9, RICO, WAS RUSHED TO A VETERINARIAN CLINIC WHERE HE UNDERWENT SURGERY. POLICE HAVE NOT IDENTIFIED THE SUSPECT INVOLVED IN THE SHOOTING AT THIS TIME. OFFICERS DO NOT BELIEVE ANYONE ELSE WAS HURT IN THE INCIDENT. REPORTING IN NORTHEAST ALBUQUERQUE, MIKE SPRINGER KOAT, ACTION 7 NEWS A-P-D COULDN'T TELL US THE LAST TIME ONE OF ITS K-9 OFFICERS WAS HURT IN THE LINE OF DUTY. I-40 EASTBOUND NEAR THE ROUTE 66 CASINO WAS CLOSED FOR NEARLY 7 HOURS OVERNIGHT... AFTER A WOMAN WAS HIT AND KILLED WHILE TRYING TO WALK ACROSS THE INTERSTATE. IT HAPPENED NEAR MILE MARKER 140, WEST OF ALBUQUERQUE. OFFICERS TELL US THE WOMAN TRIED TO WALK ACROSS THE INTERSTATE AFTER SHE WAS INVOLVED IN A MINOR CRASH, WHEN SHE WAS HIT BY AN S-U-V. THE WOMAN'S NAME HASN'T BEEN RELEASED. A MAN IS RESCUED FROM THE RIO GRANDE AFTER HE GETS STUCK IN THE MUD. IT ALL HAPPENED NEAR COORS AND ST. JOSEPHS AS PEOPLE WERE HEADING TO WORK AND SCHOOL. ALBUQUERQUE FIRE PERSONELL RUSHED TO THE RIVER AFTER THE MAN CALLED FOR HELP. IT TOOK A COUPLE MINUTES TO GET TO HIM AND ONCE POLICE AND FIRE GOT THERE... THEY FACED SOME CHALLENGES. "45 he was a relatively large guy and it was a pretty steep hill" 49 RESCUE CREWS THREW SOME ROPE TO THE STRANDED MAN AND FREED HIM FROM THE RUSHING WATER. HE WAS LOADED IN AN AMBULANCE AND TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL. A-F-D SAYS BECAUSE THE RIVER IS SO DANGEROUS,